usefully

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The strategy usefully highlights the importance of removing malign interests from the hemisphere—albeit without mentioning Russia or China or Cuba as those influences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Paradoxically, to the extent the law can be usefully deployed as a tactic, the 14th Amendment itself is a tactical enterprise that exists to protect us from tyranny.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024

The scientists demonstrate how observations of the rate of decrease of the Sun's dipole magnetic field can be usefully combined with sunspot observations to predict when the ongoing cycle would peak.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

Parisi is far more lively when talking about how science imperfectly, but usefully, models reality.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2023

Hofstede argued, for example, that cultures can be usefully distinguished according to how much they expect individuals to look after themselves.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell